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Most books are written by single authors but some are compendiums.Thatis many authors write a single chapter, an editor places them in a particular order, and when read it seems like one book. This especially when each author writes his or her chapter with the theme of this book in mind. Some compendiums are collections of writings by different authors who did not have a particular book theme in mind but all the writings together read like one book anyway. Most ancient religious texts are compended documents assembled by people who did not write them. |
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Universities have turned this into an entire methodology. Reading many authors, writing on one field of knowledge with differing narrative styles, is good for students when they need to pick up the gist of a subject. |
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The internet has much compendability potential and could be considered a "giant_book." There will be much opportunity for groups to tie it all together in a way that any subject could be studied by hopping from site to site around the world. |
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As the internet merges with society many areas of copywrite law will be weakened or even bypassed. Those who insist upon only putting out samples may loose out to those who simply organize scattered free essays into similar and more complex works. |
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Students and profesionals will begin to "hunt and gather" many scarce works and compend them together, making the internet into a huge literary work that no single book could ever rival. Because compended information can be attained so quickly and it's depth is so great for any subject, this type of availability may literally threaten the book's position in culture. |
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Once compendiumationalism becomes mainstream everyone may begin to learn how to piece anything together quickly and become psuado-experts, just like that. This will have a great effect upon libraries which may quickly become portable and accessable like telephones are now in the home, work, or on every corner. |
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A new "theory of knowledge" will emerge which will be based on availability of all facts atall times. As information technologies continue to shrink this knowledge will not only be available at all times but will also fit on the body, sometimes hidden. All that will be left to do will be to connect all of this compended knowledge directly to the brain and put it all under the control of thoughts. |
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Poly-sensory modality allows many parts of the brain to compend sensory and visceral impulses together into one experience. As in hearing a sound while your eyes are closed and being able to form a picture of what may be making that sound. |
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Once all of this new type of compended knowledge is connected directly to the brain a true synergy will occur between the information stored outside our bodies and our perception of reality. Much of this will then "bypass" the sensory apperatus altogether. |
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The real question is how we will deal with the information establishment, spread far and wide across the land, when they shrink down and don't need the bulky structures anymore and are then either put on or inside of our bodies. What will we do with all these older forms of information dispersal? |
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